Buachaille Etive Mòr
So I ended up in Glencoe twice in the one week, first trip I didn't bother coming here as I knew when I came up on the Sunday my friends would want to stop here. That became an absolute definite after we ran into a snow storm on the way in which gave a nice fresh dusting of snow everywhere and was a total transformation from my trip on Wednesday, which was a beautiful Spring day.
Explore #25
A freezing cold morning in Glencoe, the sunrise had been a tad disappointing but the light was still good and I'd already bagged a few shots upriver of crazy ice formations (see further back in my stream), there was still plenty of snow about from the previous day and a little bit of low cloud drifting across the Boochle.
I wasn't going to shoot this scene on this morning as I've shot it loads previously, but walking back from upstream and getting to this point it just looked so good it would have been rude not to! I'm really pleased with this one too as it does differ quite a bit from previous shots with the snow and low cloud drifting along.
I'd read somewhere online on a forum some guy was ranting on about using filters and silky water photo's being a 'cliche' and had been since the day the first ever one was taken haha, he had a proper bee in his bonnet about it!
Do what you like is my motto - and you can't really get more of a 'cliched' shot than this, with the location and slow water, I also have one of this location framed hanging on my lounge wall.
Cliché ? Maybe, but glad I stopped to take it.
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Buachaille Etive Mòr (Scottish Gaelic: Buachaille Eite Mòr, meaning "the great herdsman of Etive"), generally known to climbers simply as The Buachaille or The Beuckle, is a mountain at the head of Glen Etive in the Highlands of Scotland. Its pyramidal form, as seen from the A82 road when travelling towards Glen Coe, makes it one of the most recognisable mountains in Scotland, and one of the most depicted on postcards and calendars. Buachaille Etive Mòr was also seen in the film Skyfall, where James Bond transported M away from the villain Raoul Silva. - Wikipedia
River Coupall, Buachaille Etive Mòr
Glen Coe, Scotland
I'm not joking either! :-D Looking back towards the two Buachaille's, Mor and Beag, from the River Coupall.
Probably one of the most photographed mountains in these Isles, Buachaille Etive Mor. The name translates to The Great Herdsman of Etive, and the mountain is joined to its little brother Buachaille Etive Beag. This image was taken standing in the River Coupall, in amongst the North Buttress falls.
Explore #1 16/10/18
I know some of you already know the reason I'm reposting it as you saw it in the Sunday Times yesterday and you have emailed me with some really nice words and congrats, thanks it really is appreciated! A lot of you I guess won't know why I'm posting it again yet...
I found out a few months out that this image had gone through to the finals of this years Landscape Photographer of the Year compettion (LPOTY 2018)
I got a very surreal phone call from Charlie Waite last Monday to tell me that the image had gone further still, it's been an ambition of mine to get an image into the LPOTY yearbook for a long time... as I was chatting to Charlie I kind of got the feeling that I might make the book here, he said "you'd better sit down"... at which point he told me that the image had been chosen as the Landscape Photographer of the Year 2018 overall winner.
I'm completely blown away by this, and it's still very much sinking in.
I've had to keep it secret for almost a week which has been pretty hard work to be honest but now I can post the image. Thanks to my FlickR friends who have mailed me with your support, here's a link to the 2018 LPOTY page:
www.take-a-view.co.uk/2018-award-winners/
The original FlickR post:
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Buachaille Etive Mòr (Scottish Gaelic: Buachaille Èite Mòr, meaning "the herdsman of Etive"), generally known to climbers simply as The Buachaille,...
The Classic shot of the waterfall & Buachaille Etive Mor
Sorry, Buachaille again. My love hate obsessional relationship with this mountain goes on. A slightly different take on the classic.
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Buachaille Etive Mòr, generally known to climbers simply as The Buachaille, is a mountain at the head of Glen Etive in the Highlands of Scotland. Its...
The mighty 'Boochle' bathed in early morning sunshine. The Coupall river in the foreground has some interesting colours in the crystal clear (but...
A slightly different crop of the last pano, as I decided the rocks on the right of the original were a major distraction...
(and now I've cloned...
Glencoe, Scotland
On my return visit to the 'famous' waterfall I was rewarded with 5 minutes of gorgeous light. And I had the place for myself for at least one hour.
Glen Coe, Scotland
I been wanting to get this shot for few years now, I missed out last time I was in Glencoe, but here it is now.
By way of contrast, here's a view of view of Buachaille Etive Mor on the way north a week earlier. Just before the rain started....
Would it?
I've not posted anything from here in absolutely ages so here we go, we stopped off here on the way to Skye in February, which really does seem like an eternity ago now!
As always with this location I always look for something different than the 'regular' shot, (then always end up taking one of that anyway..) I do like a low perspective, and this was about as low as I could get in the River, even with wellies on it was a bit of a contortionist job getting wedged in....
The sunrise came and went and only had very brief colour, but what it lacked in colour it certainly didn't in drama with some great storm clouds either side of the Buachaille and with the top perfectly visible in full snow I was happy enough... well until my backside got soaking wet .... not a lot wellies can help with there!
Here's another from my paddle in the River Coupall on a grey day last September, looking up at the magnificence that is Buachaille Etive Mor.
Another from my trawl through Lightroom culling the dregs that have accumulated over the years. this somehow missed being played with at the time,...
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Have been wanting to do this famous scene for a while, weather wasn't the best for other places so took the opportunity.
Buachaille Etive Mor/Stob Dearg and River Coupall
Buachaille Etive Mor, Glencoe, Scottish Highlands.
The Scottish pyramid, Buachaille Etive Mòr, taken before sunrise, with the little waterfalls lightpainted using a LED flashlight, a combination of 3...
The River Coupall with the iconic Buachaille Etive Mor in the distance.
First of all, thank you all for the views, favourites and comments on my previous upload. Very humbling and appreciated.
This is a picture I took...
La rivière
Long Exposure from the River Coupall towards BEM.
The classic view of Buachaille Etive Mor looking across the small falls on the River Coupall just off the single track road to Glen Etive. ....But sometimes the weather is better than this....
Stob Dearg is part of the Buachaille Etive Mor up in the Glencoe area of the Scottish Highlands. This is my take on the classic kind of shot from here, got a bit more going on with the sky from last time I visited.
Another from earlier in the year in the bitterly cold West Highlands of Scotland.
Out for sunrise in Glen Etive and on the hunt for iced up pools of water, whilst the first didn't really happen to any effect, the second one certainly did and it was a case of just trying to get a decent one into a composition with the great snow capped mountain in the rear in the shot also.
A little splash of colour in the sky at dawn was about as much as the sky played ball this morning but the icy pool really sets off the mountain to the rear and the cloudy sky blocking the light I also feel adds quite a bit to the moody / coldness of the scene, the pool has already started to melt with the sun coming up and ten minutes later it would be gone almost completely.
Another image from the bitterly cold morning in Glencoe, the sunrise hadn't really produced anything magical but the previous nights freeze certainly had in the form of some amazing Ice patterns that had only just started to begin melting, to get this shot I had to use one of my most specialist pieces of photography equipment....., my pair of big lined wading wellingtons :-) by far one of the best purchases ever! with those on I could wade through the river to the central rocky area looking for frozen pools of water.
This one seemed perfect for what I wanted, looking towards the Boochle ahead, a really low perspective allowing for the normally prominent River Coupall to be removed from the scene for something I feel is pretty different to the norm from this location, the hardest bit was getting low enough to compose the image as I wanted it, you have to be a bit of a contortionist sometimes, and enjoy getting covered in mud. All part of the fun.
Have been keen to try more night sky/night photography lately and when I noticed the conditions were favourable in Glencoe on Friday night, my mind was made up to make the journey and give it a go!
This wonderful scenery has been shot many times from this small waterfall on the Coupall River in Glencoe, Scotland for a reason: it's just so...
Another day another Buachaille. I'm still sifting through the Lightroom catalogue, and this one popped out. A multi shot pano taken in August 2009,...
Another rework in Lightroom 6, now printed for the stall
This over photographed iconic location looks good at any time of year but it was a privilege to be able to capture it in the snow.
I decided to drive around to Glencoe /Rannoch Moor early on Tuesday to try my luck at some of the "classic" shots that the area is famous for. I...
Stob Dearg at sunrise on a snowy winter morning from River Coupall
Just another one similar to the others down there
Buchaille Etive Mor,
Our visit to Glencoe was brief and spent wandering in mist rain and the occasional passing blue sky. Despite the wet conditions...
Glen Etive, Buachaille Etive Mor & Glen Coe from River Coupall
Thanks to all Phoide contributors to Buachaille Etive Mòr!
Most notably Damon Finlay, Pete Rowbottom and Clive Griffiths.